THE QUESTS 33rd REVOLUTION ORIG LP SINGAPORE PSYCH RARE

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THE QUESTS - 33rd REVOLUTION - COLUMBIA - 33ESX-605

ULTRA RARE 1967 ORIGINAL SINGAPORE PRESSING.

ORIGINAL BLACK COLUMBIA LABEL WITH BLUE LOGO.

ORIGINAL FLIP-BACK COVER.

Below a nice long dscription of this album and the times and world from which it emerged , from http://progressive. homestead.com

..................................................;;;;;;;;; by Joseph c Pereira

""The Summer Of Love of 1967 did not escape their attention and their second LP 33rd Revolution, which was released in December 1967, was their attempt at doing a Sgt. Pepper's. The opening number of the album was a pyschedelic rendition of Hava Nagila. Bassist Sam Toh said, "The A Go Go Requests EP was wildly successful for them. In fact when I joined the band I had to learn Mustafa, which was one of the songs on the EP and had featured Henry Chua. The band decided to find another instrumental number to do but adept Eastern instrumentation to it. We got session tabla players to augment us on that track." A chime sound resonates at the beginning while Lim Wee Guan starts the track with his drumming. Organist Jimmy plays the first half of the melody with Reggie Verghese using a fuzzed guitar sound to play the second half of melody. This is broken up with tabla interludes to create a contrast. Then they both combine to play the bridge. Reggie then picks up the melody at double speed on his guitar followed by Jimmy's organ. Reggie gets a rather fat distorted tone on his guitar for this piece. The number evokes 1967 and the onslaught of pyschedelia well.

The next song was a cover of Every Mother Son's, Come On Down To My Boat which was featured in the movie The Karate Killers. This song shows the tight ensemble playing of the group. The rest of the album contained flower power era songs. Even a commercial number like Guantanamera was covered and comes out rather well because of the quality singing from Vernon Cornelius and the sterling playing of the band. Reggie Verghese did not forget his instrumental roots and did The Seekers' hit Georgy Girl as a guitar instrumental. However it was their versions of some underground songs that really made the album distinctive. One of them was Hallucination from the group Tomorrow but cleverly titled Mr Rainbow to sidestep any attention from the authorities who were likely to frown upon this homage to Western progressive thinking.

Tomorrow was a four piece UK group featuring Keith West, Steve Howe, Junior Wood and Twink. They were regarded as one of the foremost psychedelic groups in UK that year. Renaming the song Mr Rainbow since the lyrics does contain a reference to Mr Rainbow was smart as it allowed the song to be passed untouched. Perhaps nobody caught the irony after all. Mr Rainbow was evocative of pyschedelia as it featured tingling keyboard work from Jimmy and Vernon's memorable lyric in the second verse, "Sometimes at night, a circle of light shines on my pillow". Another cool song they covered was Action's Never Ever which they raunched up and 26 Miles with its dense rhythms and heavy guitar playing from Reggie Verghese. ""

..""..Still there is no denying the importance of the Quests. They, more than any other Singapore band typified the Singapore Sixties sound... the body of work they have left behind is staggering.

They also backed a large number of solo singers in Singapore and a few in Hongkong. Further they had the guitar player of the Sixties for Singapore. Reggie Verghese. No discussion of the Singapore Sixties is complete without mention of Reggie. He was the quintessential guitar hero of the Sixties for Singaporeans of a certain vintage. They were mesmerized by his guitar playing on records and on shows and his arrangements on Quests records. Being an instrumentalist helped him in his singing because he knew how to phrase along to the chords in the songs he played. As for his guitar work, one listen to him strangling his guitar on Soul Finger shows the virtuosity of this guitar player while he could be tender as evidenced on his acoustic guitar ride on his 1965 composition Champagne. If one need to sum up Singapore pop of the Sixties just one word will do - Quests. ""

CONDITION

COVER : EX

DISC : VG++/EX

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